In my country we go to prison first and then become President.
A good head and a good heart are always a formidable combination.
Education is the most powerful weapon which you can use to change the world.
I detest racialism, because I regard it as a barbaric thing, whether it comes from a black man or a white man.
If you want to make peace with your enemy, you have to work with your enemy. Then he becomes your partner.
Desmond Tutu
A person is a person because he recognizes others as persons.
For goodness sake, will they hear, will white people hear what we are trying to say? Please, all we are asking you to do is to recognize that we are humans, too.
I am a leader by default, only because nature does not allow a vacuum.
Without forgiveness, there's no future.
Joseph Nyerere
We spoke and acted as if, given the opportunity for self-government, we would quickly create utopias. Instead injustice, even tyranny, is rampant.
If real development is to take place, the people have to be involved.
The African is not 'Communistic' in his thinking; he is -- if I may coin an expression -- 'communitary'.
Small nations are like indecently dressed women. They tempt the evil-minded
“Violence is unnecessary and costly. Peace is the only way.”
Kenneth Kaunda
The power which establishes a state is violence; the power which maintains it is violence; the power which eventually overthrows it is violence.
Ambition never comes to an end.
The inability of those in power to still the voices of their own consciences is the great force leading to change.
When you go in search of honey you must expect to be stung by bees.
Wangari Maathai
I am working to make sure we don't only protect the environment, we also improve governance.
In a few decades, the relationship between the environment, resources and conflict may seem almost as obvious as the connection we see today between human rights, democracy and peace.
It's the little things citizens do. That's what will make the difference. My little thing is planting trees.
Idi Amin Dada
I am the hero of Africa
I do not want to be controlled by any superpower. I myself consider myself the most powerful figure in the world, and that is why I so not let any superpower control me.
Germany is the place where when Hitler was the prime minister and supreme commander, he burned over six million Jews. This is because Hitler and all German people knew that Israelis are not people who are working in the interest of the world and that is why they burned the Israelis alive with gas in the soil of Germany.
Leopold II of Belgium
In fourteen years Leopold has deliberately destroyed more lives than have suffered death on all the battlefields of this planet for the past thousand years. In this vast statement I am well within the mark, several millions of lives with the mark. It is curious that the most advanced and most enlightened century of all the centuries the sun has looked upon should have the ghastly distinction of having produced this moldy and peity-mouthing hypocrite, this bloody monster whose mate is not findable in human history anywhere, and whose personality will surely shame hell itself when he arrives there--which will be soon, let us hope and trust.
- Mark Twain in Eruption
Nelson Mandela
- In my country we go to prison first and then become President.
- A good head and a good heart are always a formidable combination.
- Education is the most powerful weapon which you can use to change the world.
- I detest racialism, because I regard it as a barbaric thing, whether it comes from a black man or a white man.
- If you want to make peace with your enemy, you have to work with your enemy. Then he becomes your partner.
Desmond TutuJoseph Nyerere
Kenneth Kaunda
Wangari Maathai
Idi Amin Dada
Leopold II of Belgium
- Mark Twain in Eruption